David Liggera

I started amateur photography in my teens following in my father’s footsteps. My father started in black and white, developing his own prints and slides. He even dabbled in coloring some of his slides. As a Junior in college, I was afforded the opportunity to spend a year studying in Paris, France. My father gave me one of his first film cameras made by Agfa. He told me to always use Kodak’s Kodachrome 35 mm slide film for the truest colors. Needless to say, I came back from studying and traveling around Europe with a mountain of slides!

Believing film is the best medium for pictures, I reluctantly adopted digital photography long after it appeared on the scene. Digital has its benefits: you can take as many pictures as fit on an SD card and then pick and choose the ones you want to keep. You can see the picture as soon as you take it, and retake it if you don’t like it, no waiting for the film to develop. But in my opinion, no matter how many megapixels the digital camera has, the quality cannot beat Kodachrome film.

Just like vinyl records, film photography is making a comeback. And just like my collection of vinyl records which I sold, I sold all my film cameras. What’s old is new again!